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Improving your weight, metabolic health, and type 2 diabetes management with our bestselling low-carb diet health program

The CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Health Program is an energy-controlled, nutritionally complete, eating plan that is lower in carbohydrates. The CSIRO Low-Carb Diet has a focus on quality carbohydrate foods that have a low-glycaemic index (GI) and includes higher proportions of protein and unsaturated (healthy) fats.

The Program also incorporates a prescriptive, home-based exercise plan consisting of combined aerobic and resistance (strength) exercises to maximise health benefits.

The CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Health Program can help you achieve sustained long-term weight loss, improve blood glucose control, reduce risk factors for health disease, and reduce diabetes medication requirements.

It can benefit a wide range of people, assisting with improvements in health and wellbeing and it is particularly useful for individuals trying to lose weight, and people who have insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, pre-diabetes, and type 2 diabetes.

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The CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Health Program 

Research and clinical trials

The spines of all the titles in the CSIRO Low-carb Diet series as of 2022 showing because all books are stacked on top of each other on a tableFor many years, CSIRO has been examining the effects of dietary and lifestyle factors on weight management, blood glucose control and risk factors for heart disease. This research resulted in the development and substantiation of the CSISRO Low-Carb Diet Health Program.

In 2012 CSIRO commenced a large-scale clinical trial to understand and substantiate the effects of the CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Health Program. The 2-year clinical trial was conducted with individuals who were overweight or obese with type 2 diabetes.

The clinical trial showed that after 2 years, the CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Health Program was effective in achieving sustained long-term weight loss. It also revealed that compared to a traditional higher carbohydrate (low-GI), moderate protein, low fat diet, the CSIRO Low-Carb Diet was more effective in improving blood glucose control and reducing risk factors for heart disease and diabetes medication requirements.

In 2021, CSIRO researchers were also involved in an international study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) that demonstrated a low carbohydrate diet was more effective than a traditional higher carbohydrate, low fat diet in achieving remission of type 2 diabetes.

Read the research behind the CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Health Program.

Books

The CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Health program has been translated into a practical, easy step-by-step guide with a book publication series for the Australian market. These book titles include:

CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Health program books
Title Year
CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Easy 100 2022
CSIRO Low-Carb Diabetes Every Day 2021
CSIRO Low-Carb Diabetes Diet & Lifestyle Solution 2020
CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Quick and Easy 2019
CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Everyday book 2018
CSIRO Low-Carb Diet book 2017

The CSIRO Low-Carb book series feature nutritious low-carb, high-protein and healthy fats recipes, with weekly meal and exercise plans, shopping lists and creative meal builder ideas based on the science of the CSIRO LowCarb Diet.

Support Tools to use with the CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Health Program

Ready meals

CSIRO is working with Australian food manufacturers and retailers to make it easier for Australians to choose nutritious ready meals consistent with the successful CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Health Program.

The meals will feature a front of pack labelling mark signalling they are a meal suitable for the CSIRO Low-Carb Diet. A blue label with the CSIRO icon  which says Meal Suitable for the CSIRO Low-Carb Diet

Ready meals featuring the mark have been formulated and passed independent tests to ensure strict benchmarks have been met, making them compliant with the food and nutrient specifications of the science-based CSIRO Low-Carb Diet.

Creative Food Solutions have developed meals designed to align with the CSIRO Low-Carb Diet. The Mad Foodies range of meals is available now in store. 

Improving your weight, metabolic health, and type 2 diabetes management with our bestselling low-carb diet health program

The CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Health Program is an energy-controlled, nutritionally complete, eating plan that is lower in carbohydrates. The CSIRO Low-Carb Diet has a focus on quality carbohydrate foods that have a low-glycaemic index (GI) and includes higher proportions of protein and unsaturated (healthy) fats.

The Program also incorporates a prescriptive, home-based exercise plan consisting of combined aerobic and resistance (strength) exercises to maximise health benefits.

The CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Health Program can help you achieve sustained long-term weight loss, improve blood glucose control, reduce risk factors for health disease, and reduce diabetes medication requirements.

It can benefit a wide range of people, assisting with improvements in health and wellbeing and it is particularly useful for individuals trying to lose weight, and people who have insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, pre-diabetes, and type 2 diabetes.

[Music plays and a divided circle appears in the centre of the screen and various digital images flash through showing images of activities CSIRO is involved with]

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Prof. Grant Brinkworth: The obesity epidemic in Australia is a major health issue.

[Image changes to show a child eating hot chips and then the image changes to show Prof. Grant Brinkworth talking to the camera and text appears: Prof. Grant Brinkworth]

One-third of children and two-thirds of Australian adults are considered either overweight or obese.

[Image changes to show Dr Pennie Taylor sitting in a chair and talking to the camera and then the image changes to show a female pricking her finger for a blood glucose test and text appears: Dr Pennie Taylor]

Dr Pennie Taylor: Obesity is an issue because it actually increases our risk of chronic disease such as cardiovascular disease and Type 2 Diabetes.

[Images move through to show a picture of different types of junk food, a hand dipping a chip into sour cream on a tray of junk food, and then Grant talking to the camera]

Prof. Grant Brinkworth: Poor dietary choices is consuming too many energy dense, nutrient poor, discretionary junk foods which are high in added sugars, salts, and saturated fat.

[Images move through of nutrition facts panels on the end of boxes of food, a female with a meal using an iPhone while food calorie amounts scroll through on the screen, and then Pennie talking]

Dr Pennie Taylor: Our community at the moment are faced with this overwhelming amount of information around diet and exercise and lifestyle and it’s been coming at a rate of knots where people aren’t being able to interpret what is the right information and what’s not.

[Images move through of Pennie working on a laptop, a line graph on the laptop screen, and Pennie’s finger tracing along the line graph on the screen]

So, what we’re wanting to do is actually get through to that evidenced based information that we know what works for people.

[Image changes to show Grant talking to the camera and then the image changes to show Grant working on a laptop and then the camera zooms in on the information on the laptop screen]

Prof. Grant Brinkworth: Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes are major national health challenges and CSIRO’s mandate is to develop solutions and strategies to tackle our major national issues.

[Image changes to show Pennie talking to the camera and then images move through of Pennie working on a patient and the camera zooms in on the patient’s arm]

Dr Pennie Taylor: So, what we did a few years ago is we actually ran a clinical trial and we looked at the effects of our dietary pattern on people living with Type 2 Diabetes.

[Images move through of different types of low carbohydrate foods on wooden boards, Penny assembling a bowl of food, and then Grant talking to the camera]

Prof. Grant Brinkworth: The CSIRO Low Carb Diet is an effective eating plan that’s lower in carbohydrate, higher in protein and healthy fats, that is shown to be effective for sustained long term weight loss, improved blood glucose control, as well as reduce diabetes medication requirements.

[Image changes to show Pennie talking to the camera]

Dr Pennie Taylor: So, what we’re doing is partnering with Australian food manufacturers and retail outlets to put these foods into environments where they’re easy to access.

[Image changes to show nuts, grains and an avocado on a plate and the CSIRO logo and text appears inset: CSIRO, Meal Suitable For The CSIRO Low-Carb Diet*]

So, the CSIRO Impact Mark is a trademark for CSIRO

[Image changes to show boxes of pre-prepared meals and dishes of food and then the image changes to show a view looking down on a variety of meals in dishes and in pre-prepared packs]

that we are putting on some pre-prepared meals that fit within the construct of the CSIRO Low Carb Diet.

[Image changes to show the cover of the CSIRO Low-Carb book and then the image changes to show Pennie looking through the book and then the image changes to show Grant talking to the camera]

Prof. Grant Brinkworth: We’ve also translated these scientific principles into an easy step-by-step guide book series to ensure that everyone can have access to this scientific research and gain the health benefits.

[Image changes to show Pennie talking to the camera and then the image changes to show Pennie pointing to diagrams of physical exercises on a laptop screen]

Dr Pennie Taylor: We do know exercise is really important just for mental health.

[Image changes to show Pennie talking to the camera again]

But also for Type 2 Diabetes, when you’re exercising you’re getting your muscles working and what that helps to do is actually pull out the glucose from your blood and use it through to your muscles. So, you’re burning up appropriate energy.

[Images move through to show Grant working on a laptop, a view looking down on food on a table, Pennie looking through the CSIRO Low-Carb book, and Grant talking to the camera]

Prof. Grant Brinkworth: Rigorous clinical trials at CSIRO have shown that this plan can be used as a long-term solution to achieve sustained weight loss as well as improvements in blood glucose control and is not just a short term fix.

[Music plays and the image changes to show the CSIRO logo and text on a white screen: CSIRO, Australia’s National Science Agency]

Prof. Grant Brinkworth and Dr Pennie Taylor explain how the diet was scientifically developed and tested through rigorous clinical trials, its translation into our best-selling book series and now its evolution into nutritious convenient ready meals.

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The CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Health Program 

Research and clinical trials

For many years, CSIRO has been examining the effects of dietary and lifestyle factors on weight management, blood glucose control and risk factors for heart disease. This research resulted in the development and substantiation of the CSISRO Low-Carb Diet Health Program.

In 2012 CSIRO commenced a large-scale clinical trial to understand and substantiate the effects of the CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Health Program. The 2-year clinical trial was conducted with individuals who were overweight or obese with type 2 diabetes.

The clinical trial showed that after 2 years, the CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Health Program was effective in achieving sustained long-term weight loss. It also revealed that compared to a traditional higher carbohydrate (low-GI), moderate protein, low fat diet, the CSIRO Low-Carb Diet was more effective in improving blood glucose control and reducing risk factors for heart disease and diabetes medication requirements.

In 2021, CSIRO researchers were also involved in an international study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) that demonstrated a low carbohydrate diet was more effective than a traditional higher carbohydrate, low fat diet in achieving remission of type 2 diabetes.

Read the research behind the CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Health Program.

Books

The CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Health program has been translated into a practical, easy step-by-step guide with a book publication series for the Australian market. These book titles include:

CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Health program books
Title Year
CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Easy 100 2022
CSIRO Low-Carb Diabetes Every Day 2021
CSIRO Low-Carb Diabetes Diet & Lifestyle Solution 2020
CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Quick and Easy 2019
CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Everyday book 2018
CSIRO Low-Carb Diet book 2017

The CSIRO Low-Carb book series feature nutritious low-carb, high-protein and healthy fats recipes, with weekly meal and exercise plans, shopping lists and creative meal builder ideas based on the science of the CSIRO LowCarb Diet.

Support Tools to use with the CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Health Program

Ready meals

CSIRO is working with Australian food manufacturers and retailers to make it easier for Australians to choose nutritious ready meals consistent with the successful CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Health Program.

The meals will feature a front of pack labelling mark signalling they are a meal suitable for the CSIRO Low-Carb Diet. 

A blue label with the CSIRO icon  which says Meal Suitable for the CSIRO Low-Carb Diet

Ready meals featuring the mark have been formulated and passed independent tests to ensure strict benchmarks have been met, making them compliant with the food and nutrient specifications of the science-based CSIRO Low-Carb Diet.

Creative Food Solutions have developed meals designed to align with the CSIRO Low-Carb Diet. The Mad Foodies range of meals is available now in store. 

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